Imagine getting ready to curl up inside your humble and comfy little abode. You've popped in a DVD and made your way to the kitchen to gather up some delicious treats and crack open a frosty brew. But when you sit down with your grub, you find yourself sitting through what seems like endless and unskippable movie previews and piracy warnings—what a buzzkill. If only you knew the remote-control trick that works on nearly every DVD Player (Hint: It's not the menu button. We'll tell it to you after the jump).
Sometimes, a quick hit to the menu button will get you going. But even for those seemingly unskippable previews, it turns out you don't have to sit through them at all and you can actually get the movie going before you finish your beer if you know this simple trick: Stop, stop, play.
"Stop, stop, play" should get you to the movie on most DVD players. But if you're still having trouble, try two other remote button combinations from Digital Inspiration: Stop, stop, stop, play (three times!) or do a few rounds of "Stop, play" to skip through the previews and the landing pages one-by-one:
When the first splash screen appeared, I clicked the player’s Stop button. Then I clicked Play, and the disc skipped ahead to the previews. I repeated the process — Stop, then Play — and it advanced to the FBI warning. I did it a third time and presto: I landed right on the movie’s menu screen.
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I usually just hit fast forward (one time for each preview) until they run through and the menu pops up...
I'll have to give this a try. It drives me nuts when they lock down all the buttons (even the next chapter button) on the remote to prevent you from skipping ahead.
This is one of my endless pet peeves. Can't wait to give it a try!
The necessity of workarounds like this are a big reason why some people don't like buying DVDs and pirate the films instead.
@Trish1980
if you can't fast forward through a dvd normal style, not in chunks, you are clicking the wrong button. You are hitting the chapter skip button and you need to be hitting the fast forward button. This will allow you to go forward or backwards in small increments, and at different speeds 16x faster, BAM 1/2 speed backwards BAM. If you pause first and then hit one of these buttons it will usually play in slo-mode. If your dvd player is a cheaper model they might have used the same buttons for both, usually to do this you then would hold that button down, and instead of chapter skipping it will change to fast forward or rewind.
If your dvd player can't fast forward, you need a new dvd player, since this is a pretty standard function. It's should be on all players, i haven't ever seen one that doesn't do it (just with the shared function on the buttons)
Also there are dvd players out there that allow you to input a time to jump to. I have had some that have done it in the past. Nice feature although i usually just fast forward at a extremely fast speed when looking for something.
@Trish1980
If you've got a remote control with only one back button, holding the button down (instead of just pressing it) should make the film rewind instead of going back a chapter. That's how mine works.
Don't tell HBO about this. They'll find a way to get around it and force you to watch their 5 minute advertisement for every single TV show they've EVER made!
Why don't DVD manufacturers and companies like NETFLIX get it? Many of us go to DVDs to get away from the deluge of commercials on broadcast TV -- and then we run into commercials on a DVD that makes out blood boil.
JUST SHOW US THE DAMNED MOVIE!